A play reading, directed by Scott Weintraub
Desert Dwellers, Part One: The Reformer's Apprentice
An intimate portrayal of a young Jewish woman in 1870s San Francisco by Rochlin, a historian and novelist who has devoted thirty-eight years recording in fact and fiction the lives of Jews, women, and other little-known westerners.
Harriet Rochlin, a native of Los Angeles, has been researching, writing, and lecturing on Jewish roots in the Spanish, Mexican and American West for more than three decades. Her landmark social history, "Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West," is now in its twentieth year and eleventh printing. Rochlin turned to fictions to probe the inner lives of these pioneers as they progressed from Jewish newcomers to Jewish westerners. The resulting Desert Dwellers Trilogy has won praise for historical authenticity, lively storytelling, and graphic details.
